iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I somewhat wonder if that beyond the event horizon feeling really is new, or just not as widely preserved in the record for earlier tech revolutions.

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, I get what was planned, but I for the life of me can't unsee the abbreviation is going to be a 'No-No' 😅

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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kruger @kruger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey! Here I am yet again with the offer! I can draw you a spaceship, vehicle, mech, aircraft, static or in a dynamic pose, with the best rendering and detailing i can offer, plus a complex background of your liking for 200 USD, like the examples!PM me here or via valahor@gmail.com if interested

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Chain Story Project has just released its first offering for October: Godsgrave by Alina Lee, another tale of Rowan Grim. Please download, enjoy and share (sharing makes this project possible). Thank you #freefiction www.chainstorycore.com/blog/godsgrave

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Godsgrave — The Chain Story

Rowan Grim devours sorcerous power, which greatly enhances her ability to survive. When an enemy finds other means to destroy her, she faces a challenge that reveals things she never wanted to know ab...

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The only problem I have with this track is that it makes me want to replay Mass Effect once again. 😜 Eletania, here I come.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CARRIE FISHER was a real canyon girl. Here she is outside one of 3 Laurel Canyon homes she owned over the years. After the STAR WARS money came rolling in she then moved to Benedict Canyon. Once a Canyon girl…

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Sam Hulick @samhulick.com · 02/10/2026

It's live in the EU and eastward! Going live on the US east coast in 5 minutes... link.samhulick.com/uncharted-wo...

link.samhulick.com

Uncharted Worlds (Extended Version)

Coming October 2nd, 2026!

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What, sending androids, or going ourselves in spite of the ability? In the latter case I'd sum it up with 'bragging rights'. Hum. That actually may also cover the former case, come to think of.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Petrichor wäre auch nicht verkehrt.

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Veronika Bohrn Mena @vbohrnmena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ich lobe die Neos ja eher nicht so oft… aber die Studie ist wirklich ein wertvoller Beitrag! Outet die #FPÖ als #Putin Sprachrohr.

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Sam Hulick @samhulick.com · 26/09/2026

Less than one week until the new Uncharted Worlds Extended Version is out!! Over four minutes of tasty, spacey deliciousness. link.samhulick.com/uncharted-wo...

link.samhulick.com

Uncharted Worlds (Extended Version)

Coming October 2nd, 2026!

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was more reminded of Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors, didn't make a possible Mario connection there.

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Misery 👻 @miseryhighlight.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Listen, man, you didn’t weird me out you weirded me in. Tell me more obscure facts immediately.

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Han besökte dig så han kunde vara säkert om du mår bra.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The alt text here contains my favourite bit of wormhole trivia.

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Sam Hulick @samhulick.com · 19/09/2026

[HEAVY BREATHING INTENSIFIES]

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well... Coyote vs. ACME was a lot funnier than I haf anticipated. Great watch.

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wenn jemand aufgeregt und atemlos vor dem eigenen oder verwandten Produkten warnt macht das, in der einen oder anderen Form, aus Geldgründen. Ist es unaufgeregt in einem Nischenmagazin - dann würde ich mir tatsächlich Sorgen machen.

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

But is it inhabited by a species of blue-skinned honorbound warriors with antennae on their head?

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Danke - ich frage mich grade warum ich nie draufgekommen bin bei snopes nachzusehen.

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love this so much. That's self ironic marketing done right. ... I really would have liked to be a fly on the wall of that pitch meeting.

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Es erinnert mich an eine Anekdote (kann nicht verifizieren ob diese stimmt), dass das älteste Anzeichen von 'Zivilisation' ein verheilter Knochenbruch bei einem unserer Vorfahren war - weil der sich nicht selbständig versorgen konnte, es aber verheilt war und folglich Hilfe bekam.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy Star Trek Day and Happy 60 years of Star Trek!! Incredibly thankful for all the joy and friendship Star Trek brought to my life, not to mention working on Lower Decks with the finest crew on the USS Cerritos.

My credits at the back of The Art of Star Trek: Lower Decks

Group photo of the Lower Decks Background Paint team at a special Lower Decks theatrical screening in 2023

Convention photo of Patrick Stewart and me

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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James Swallow @jmswallow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy #StarTrek Day! 🖖Here's something I wrote about what Trek means to me for the last anniversary, which still holds true a decade later: jswallow.com/star-trek-50/

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As a non native speaker I took the test out of sheer curiosity. I feel a bit surprised by my result - I would have guessed a much more west coast bias, given a steady diet of Hollywood media fare. But then again, I'm told my English has a very Scandiwegian inflection.

A mydialect linguistic heat map placing this user as someone from New England.

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Imagery from Reuters showing how huge the chunk of glacier that fell was

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Sam Hulick @samhulick.com · 28/08/2026

A taste of things to come! Uncharted Worlds - Extended Version, coming soon to all music platforms.

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

45, oder? Grover Cleveland hatte auch zwei getrennte Amtszeiten (als 22. und 24.)

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kruger @kruger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Some more commissions for the client! For 80 usd i can draw you a spaceship,a vehicle, a mech,a weapon,a fantasy or medieval mechanism or anything you desire in the same style as the examples!It can be your own oc or some known game,movie,or anime universe.You can PM me here or via valahor@gmail.com

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Gut gemacht! Sehe es im Bekanntenkreis, dass das nicht immer ein einfacher Schritt ist.

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Teilweise wäre es auch in den Stockwerken hilfreich in welche Richtung die jeweiligen Wohnungen sind...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

nytimes.com

Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Wootmaster @wootmaster.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"AI bros prefer to stay on X because everyone hates them here" is one of the biggest endorsements of bluesky I could possibly think of.

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Es wirkt immer wieder so, dass die Mehrheit anständig ist, und es immer ein Subset ist welcher zu einem "This is why we can't have nice things" verleitet.

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I wonder how EA's new owners will look upon the queer-tending romance content of ME games.

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What do you mean, a gaggle of people who made it their lives centerpoint to talk down whatever crosses their paths might not represent reality accurately? How is that even possible? No one is allowed to feel joy! (I hate that I have to mark this as sarcasm for the sake of clarity)

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I love the smell of petrichor in the morning

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Somehow the initial wig looks like it has the beak of a raptor worked into it (it sort of looks like the front of a Romulan warbird).

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